Maryland · Nonprofit
FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MARYLAND INC
FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MARYLAND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,599 to it, the largest being THE HORIZON FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $492k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $212k
What Free Bikes 4 Kidz Maryland Inc does
Mission
Free Bikes 4 Kidz is geared toward helping children ride into a happier, healthier, more independent childhood by providing bikes to those most in need. We collect bikes donated by the public, organize volunteers to clean and refurbish them, and give them away with a new helmet to children in need identified by partnering schools, religious and nonprofit organizations, and government social services agencies. We also encourage safe riding and sponsor free bike repair clinics.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Collect, refurbish, and give away bicycles with new helmets to underserved children. In FY2026 we collected 3,170 bikes and refurbished and gave away 3,217, including bikes carried over from FY2025.
$518,131 spentof which $461,330 as grants100% of program spendingSponsor free bike repair and information sessions. We conducted eight free information and repair sessions at local libraries and events. We supported bicycle education classes in Howard County schools.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $518,131.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $82k to $131k (+60%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 14% · 2023 8% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MARYLAND INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $38.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MARYLAND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MARYLAND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MARYLAND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MARYLAND INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MARYLAND INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MARYLAND INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MARYLAND INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MARYLAND INC?
- FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MARYLAND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,599 to it, the largest being THE HORIZON FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MARYLAND INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $21,599 in grants to FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MARYLAND INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MARYLAND INC?
- THE HORIZON FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MARYLAND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing